Saul Bennett
Herman's
German,
his mother and father Hitler
refugees who disappeared
when you entered their dark apartment
to swap comic books and press your head against the war
adventure serials sparking from their dinette radio.
Unlike regular parents they never offered
milk or cookies but appeared instead
to hide,
even from their only child. Once,
Herman's father offered
an ashen head
from behind a corridor wall shushing
us to be quiet
although the radio was off
as we sat reading, I swear,
our comics in incredible silence.